Teddy Bear Toss 2024 Nottingham Panthers

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The annual Teddy Bear Toss 2024 at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham saw Panthers' fans celebrate triumph of their team

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00:00The great start to his Panthers career six points in three games. Yeah, yeah, he's been excellent

00:04I think he had one maybe two assists last night and yeah. No, he's been a huge addition

00:10chance for the stars as it

00:12Looks to come across

00:15Craig moore the former panther looking to put it back out in front of net

00:20I think I think craig moore's probably playing as a forward just so they have kind of three forward lines

00:24As we said they had eight forwards, but I think I think craig moore's plans are forward currently

00:29Yeah, it would make sense but of chance of the panthers as they come away looking in front and it's in

00:36Christophe pontos scores the goal and it's raining cuddly toys. It certainly is

00:46We might be here for a while

00:49And here they come

00:51It's a great tradition every year

00:54It didn't take as long as I thought it would

00:56It didn't two minutes and eight seconds and panthers are in the league christophe contos is with the goal

01:06And now there's a clear up operation on

01:08Yeah, do you know what it's actually?

01:10It's almost kind of a bit of a shame for the panthers this because it kind of stifles that momentum

01:14You know you score and it's you know, you want to get on a roll here

01:18And now there's going to be probably a six seven minute

01:20delay, so

01:22We'll try and keep you entertained with some stories for this next five minutes

01:26I think that's the I do know. They're an awful lot of volunteers have been recruited in

01:32They're all at the zamboni entrance getting the bears off the ice

01:36And you see all the players getting involved including the dundee players, which is great to see

01:41That's the worst bit like the stars have just conceded and they have to help get the teddies off the ice like

01:49And they still I mean it's to be fair they're doing a great job they're clearing it very very quickly

01:54There's still bears coming down

02:02But it's great to see the all these uh

02:05cuddly toys

02:06Will go to needy children

02:09And it's a great cause every year. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and it's great fun

02:13You see all the kids come in, you know with them and they've been planning it for weeks and now it's great

02:17I just hope there's not a um a coach's challenge now

02:21I wouldn't I wouldn't have thought so

02:24It looked it looked a fair enough goal. It's more bears coming along

02:30Young man, they're about to throw them over

02:34I wonder if that's ever happened in a different league where there's been like a challenge and it's been waived off. That'd be awesome

02:43I remember a few years ago

02:46Back in the days when I was a season ticket holder

02:48Someone tried to put an absolutely enormous bear over the plexi

02:53I think it was when you was playing as well. You would have either been in goal or on the bench and

02:59Yeah, I just remember just struggling about five people trying to get this this huge teddy bear over the plexi

03:05There's still some coming on the ice now. I hope no one's holding them back till

03:12And still we clear

03:14But it's been very quick, I would say only probably two or three minutes since since the goal and

03:20The vast majority of uh bears are now down at the zamboni entrance

03:25See him there being thrown out into uh into cages

03:30So let's have a look at the goal that caused all this chaos a great pass across and

03:36Contosi's johnny on the spot through the by bowl of sarbol and panthers on the board. I think it was sam here with the assist

03:45Oh

03:46There you see it's actually off the skate. I think it might be off the skate of the craig moore almost

03:52So it could be that it's sam here's gold. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it looked like there that it didn't even reach contos, but

03:59Unless it was his leg or skate. Did it count if you watch the defenseman?

04:04I think it comes off craig moore's left skate

04:07Yeah

04:09Here's the slow motion

04:12contos kind of swings at it initially, but

04:15From there though. It looks like contos did get some part of his body on it, which would suggest it was his goal

04:23As we clear these

04:26The last few bears and cuddly toys being taken off the ice

04:37Great effort by everyone to get them off so quickly so we can continue the game. Absolutely. Yeah

04:42Yeah, I mean everyone's done a great job

04:43And it's really good for the players to kind of join in and I know especially for the stars

04:47It's obviously frustrating letting that goal in so early

04:50But like you said, they did a great job helping out there. Look at ali st. Clair just wheeling through the neutral zone there

04:56look at

04:57he's with

04:59Skating skills like that. We should be having an injury injury crash. We have to get him kitted up

05:03You should be playing for dundee

05:05Here we go, here we go. So let's have a look

05:08Oh, it is. Yes. It is. It is correct a spot

05:11So it is off craig moore's skate. So it's another so I think that will be some hair's goal

05:20We'll wait for the official announcement

05:31So, I think we're just about ready to go again, uh

05:34Just i'll wait for the zamboni doors to be shut

05:40The last few an hour

05:48And the doors are now being shut so we can continue with the game

05:52Uh, what a fantastic effort by all our volunteers there to get the ice cleared so quickly

05:58So we can continue with the game less than five minutes there. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I mean like

06:03Back in the day when that used to happen it would take forever. So no exactly

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